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Topic: Central Freeway

	Freeway\|Monorail - Regional transit for the Puget Sound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Central Freeway (Interstate 5) is a significant and dominant public infrastructure in the city of Seattle and the Puget Sound region.
		The freeway, for all the negative environmental and physical externalities of its design and placement, affords opportunities as the central infrastructure of movement and as the primary structuring element of the city and the region.
		The construction of the freeway was the result of a process that was short-sighted in its consideration of the environmental effects of its size, such as its contribution to noise and air pollution as well as its physical and visual impact.
	www.freewaymonorail.org /I5.htm (2224 words)

	California @ WestCoastRoads - Interstate 80 Eastbound - San Francisco and Alameda Counties
		The Central Freeway was to directly connect to the Golden Gate Freeway but opposition from the citizens and city government curtailed that and much of the rest of the San Francisco freeway network.
		The Central Freeway was shortened during the late 1990s as the ramp to Fell Street was removed.
		The Central Freeway on-ramp to Interstate 80 (James Lick Skyway) eastbound merges onto the freeway ahead of the Seventh Street half-diamond interchange.
	www.westcoastroads.com /california/i-080a_ca.html (2490 words)

	AsianWeek: Save the Central Freeway -- Vote Yes on J (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Moreover, the Embarcadero Freeway carried a fraction of the commuter traffic as compared to the Central Freeway.
		The Central Freeway, also known as part of U.S. 101, is a major regional component to our Bay Area transportation system, not only taking drivers to the northern and western parts of town, but also serving traffic moving north and south to other parts of Hwy.
		This is the kind of transportation balance that might be achieved with the passage of the new Central Freeway and its transit plan ordinance this November.
	www.asianweek.com /1999_10_28/opinion_centralfreeway.html (869 words)

	A 21st Century Problem
		"Central freeway was never meant to be the way it is," said Robin Levitt, an architect and most recently co-chair of the Committee to Build the Boulevard.
		The battle over the freeway has been a long one for Levitt, who became involved mid-way in a process which dates to 1992, when a city commission known as the Central Freeway Task Force began to look at different alternatives for the earthquake-damaged freeway.
		Eight years later, with one deck of the still damaged and unsound freeway being used daily by countless motorists, another group of residents later known as the San Francisco Neighbors Association became frustrated with the lack of action and moved to put the question of rebuilding the freeway to the voters.
	www.newcolonist.com /sffreeway.html (820 words)

	Out of the Shadows
		San Franciscans can now add the Central Freeway to a growing list of highway superstructures that were, and add Hayes Valley to the list of neighborhoods restored when the imposing structures were removed.
		The Central Freeway was originally planned to extend through the Golden Gate Park Panhandle to Park Presidio, finally connecting to the Golden Gate Bridge.
		The time spent under the freeway's shadow has run its course, and the celebrating residents are awaiting the day when sun shines on their neighborhood again.
	www.newcolonist.com /centralfw.html (900 words)

	Caltrans News
		The Central Freeway was born out of controversy, and then reborn of contention.
		Badly damaged in the quake, the half-mile northern section of the freeway was demolished.
		In the midst of the debate, the process was slowed by a 1997 ballot initiative that asked for the freeway to be built to its original terminus.
	www.dot.ca.gov /ctnews/jun06/centralartery.shtml (912 words)

	Central Freeway Environmental Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Central Freeway (U.S. 101) was constructed in 1959 as part of an overall freeway network system in the City of San Francisco, much of which was never built.
		The Central Freeway is an elevated single-deck viaduct that runs parallel to 13th Street between Route 80 and Mission Street.
		In San Francisco, the Embarcadero Freeway, portions of Route 280 and the Central Freeway were among the structures suffering extensive damage.
	www.dot.ca.gov /dist4/sf101cnt.htm (605 words)

	Department of Public Works: Octavia Boulevard and Central Freeway to Open (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Construction of the new Central Freeway that now touches down at Market Street is a $26 million Caltrans project that replaced the old freeway extending from the Interstate 80/Highway 101 Interchange to the intersection at Fell Street.
		The Central Freeway was no exception as the project endured numerous, sometimes raucous public meetings and three citywide ballot initiatives.
		The Central Freeway/Octavia Boulevard projects, however, bridged the gap between San Franciscans who supported re-building the complete freeway all the way to Fell Street and other residents who preferred to scale-back the freeway in an effort to revitalize Hayes Valley and surrounding neighborhoods.
	www.sfgov.org /site/sfdpw_page.asp?id=37756 (842 words)

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		The superimposition of the freeway upon the city orphaned spaces.
		Construction on the last eight miles of the freeway — through Rialto and San Bernardino — started in mid-2003 and is estimated to be completed by the end of 2007.
		Some are generated by the interaction of the freeway with existing topographic or urban features, such as the underbelly forest of concrete piers under a freeway running along a hillside.
	www.lycos.com /info/freeway.html (512 words)

	Freeway and expressway revolts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Freeway Revolts (sometimes expressway revolts) refer to a phenomenon encountered in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, where planned freeway construction in many U.S. cities was halted due to widespread public opposition; especially of those whose neighborhoods would be disrupted or displaced by the proposed freeways.
		The Century Freeway (I-105), itself the subject of an unsuccessful freeway revolt in Hawthorne, South Central Los Angeles, Lynwood, and Downey that lasted nearly two decades, was truncated at the San Gabriel River Freeway (I-605) instead of its intended terminus at the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) due to opposition from the city of Norwalk.
		The Belt Freeway was to be a freeway encircling the metro Milwaukee area on the south, west and north sides.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freeway_revolts (5031 words)

	TexasFreeway > Austin > Photo Gallery > East-West travel in Austin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Well, the planners in the 1960's knew that east-west travel was a problem and put 2 continuous east-west freeways on the map and two partial east-west freeways on the planning map.
		This freeway was highly contentious, and neighborhood opposition resulted in cancellation of the freeway in the great 1994 freeway cancellation event.
		The 183 freeway is really not a true east-west-route; it is really a north-south route that has a northwest-to-southeast section in north Austin.
	www.texasfreeway.com /Austin/photos/austin_ew/austin_ew.shtml (1146 words)

	San Francisco CITYSCAPE :: the online journal of bay area urban design [ Projects: Octavia Boulevard ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The freeway was torn down between 1991 and 1993; today a six-lane boulevard with historic streetcars in its median lies in its old path, and there's a plaza at the foot of Market Street.
		The most earthquake-damaged part of the Central, from the Fell and Oak street ramps north, was razed in 1992, and the Board of Supervisors voted that year to ban new ramps north of Market.
		But traffic on the freeway backed up at the stop light at Fell; and while Market may be the city's main street, with its transit islands and two lanes reserved for streetcars, it's not a major thoroughfare.
	www.sfcityscape.com /projects/octavia.html (1814 words)

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		While the State Highway Department had long planned on bypassing Niles to the east beginning at the "wide spot" in the median of the US-12 bypass just west of the Berrien/Cass Co line and continuing northwesterly back to the existing highway northwest of the city, their sights shifted to a westerly bypass of Niles instead.
		A 1970 report, begun in 1967, prepared by the State Highway Department mapped out four possible corridors for a freeway in the US-31 corridor, which touched off a local controversy over how Berrien Springs would be bypassed: to the west or to the east.
		If the freeway were completed this year, Smith said, it would hurt the Carson Nugget.
	www.lycos.com /info/freeway--carson-city.html (429 words)

	The Freeway Revolt
		In favor of the freeway were "progressive" supervisors Jack Morrison, Joseph Casey, Jack Ertola, Joseph Tinney and Peter Tamaras.) Mayor Jack Shelley was all for it, as was the Labor Council from which he hailed.
		A raging debate over the future of the Central Freeway ramps that go north across Market is still unresolved as it heads to the ballot box for the third consecutive year in 1999, although the Fell Street offramp has been "temporarily" reopened.
		The 101-280 interchange was a mess from 1989 to 1996.
	www.bikesummer.org /1999/zine/freewayRevolt.htm (783 words)

	NJ 29 Freeway
		Conceived in the early 1950's as part of the "Trenton Complex," the 9.4-mile-long NJ 29 Freeway - originally called the East-West Highway, and later called the John Fitch Parkway - was designed to provide access to downtown Trenton from outlying suburbs to the east and west.
		To the north, the NJDOT proposed that the existing NJ 29 arterial highway constructed in the 1950's be upgraded to contemporary freeway standards.
		To accommodate the new NJ 29 Freeway and exit ramps, the NJDOT constructed a wall to separate the river from the tunnel.
	www.nycroads.com /roads/NJ-29 (1808 words)

	Freeway\|Monorail - NE 45TH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Such depressed freeways consist of an extensive right-of-way, most of which is an unused landscape buffer.
		The dwellings or buildings along this buffer have often been devalued by the imposition of the freeway, due to noise and visual impact.
		Despite the fact that several earlier studies of a freeway alignment showed it would require much lower costs and provide a more efficient regional routing, the primary reason a freeway alignment was overlooked was because of its assumed displacement of two express lanes, negatively impacting freeway capacity.
	www.freewaymonorail.org /ne_45th.htm (484 words)

	San Francisco's Freeway Plan
		The city's "Freeway Revolt," a 1959 Board of Supervisors vote to cancel 7 of 10 routes, killed most of the ones shown in gray.
		I-280 was originally to follow the Junipero Serra and Park Presidio freeways toward the Golden Gate Bridge; a junction with an extended I-80 was deleted in the mid-1950s.
		The Southern Freeway routing to I-80 at the Bay Bridge was adopted in 1961.
	www.kurumi.com /roads/3di/sanfran.html (670 words)

	sfbg.com \| news
		If the freeway is built as planned, they charge, it will be because neighborhoods pitted themselves against each other in a planning war that should never have been locked in at the ballot box.
		Essentially, the core pro-boulevard activists were focused on the freeway's impact on Hayes Valley residents and shoppers, and they've said they squeezed all they could from Caltrans, the state highway agency, which has always been reluctant to give up even an inch of roadway.
		A pedestrian-friendly street will replace part of the ugly freeway, and 750 to 900 units of housing (about half of which will be affordable to low-income families) are planned for former freeway land in Hayes Valley that was given to the city by Caltrans to help finance the deal.
	www.sfbg.com /38/31/news_freeway.html (1367 words)

	AsianWeek: Central Freeway Fight -- A Long and Losing Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Indeed, in the early hours of election counting, the freeway measure was ahead by a 52 to 48 percent margin, while there was 50-50 split on either side of the boulevard measure.
		Proponents of the boulevard, however, have argued that those structures needed immediate retrofitting for safety purposes and that the work done was a “temporary short-term fix,” while the final decision on the freeway was being debated at the polls.
		She noted that in addition to the freeway being an “eyesore,” Delgado said her group was not confident that a rebuilt and extended freeway could withstand another earthquake like the 1989 Loma Prieta quake that damaged it in the first place.
	www.asianweek.com /1999_11_11/feature_propij.html (1104 words)

	Central Freeway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Central Freeway is a roughly one-mile elevated freeway in San Francisco, California, running west from Interstate 80, which is signed as U.S. Route 101 and Interstate 80.
		It was originally intended to continue north to Lombard Street (west of the crooked section of the street) and connect to a freeway running from there to the Golden Gate Bridge, but construction was halted after the Freeway Revolt in the 1950s and the freeway never extended north past Turk Street.
		As the corridor is once again intact, the routing of U.S. Route 101 has reverted to the Central Freeway after post-Loma Prieta years of bypassing the freeway via 7th Street and Interstate 80, although 101 separates from the freeway at South Van Ness Avenue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Freeway (319 words)

	NJ 18 Freeway
		The newly combined NJ 18 Freeway was to be a 48-mile, north-south route from the intersection of NJ 34, NJ 35 and NJ 70 in Brielle to I-287 in Bound Brook.
		To mitigate the environmental damage caused by the freeway, a park was built atop a deck spanning one section of the road behind three Rutgers University dormitories.
		The freeway was extended north of this bridge in 2004.
	www.nycroads.com /roads/NJ-18 (2674 words)

	Central Freeway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Central Freeway is one of the last vestiges of the 1959 and 1966 Freeway Revolts.
		West of that exit, the freeway no longer has a number; north of Fell/Oak, the route was demolished in 1996 (after having been closed for earthquake damage).
		In 1999, a reccomendation was made to the Board for several "tunnel" routes, including one approximating the old Central Freeway northern extension.
	www.freehostsltd.com /sites/sanfrancisco/central.htm (433 words)

	SAN FRANCISCO / Octavia Boulevard -- an urbane triumph / Few flaws found on test drive of city's newest entry route
		Now, drivers heading north or west descend from the freeway at Market Street and are greeted by the most attractive entrance into the city after the Golden Gate Bridge: a boulevard with poplar trees in the middle and Chinese elms on each side of the four-lane thoroughfare between faux historic lampposts.
		The central roadway with its lines of trees is framed by a one-way path on each side reserved for local traffic -- the east side is for drivers heading north and west side is for those heading south.
		The Central Freeway came down because the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake showed it needed to be rebuilt for seismic reasons -- but the idea of a boulevard was the subject of three contentious elections between 1996 and 1998.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/13/BAGP6EMIOR1.DTL (1017 words)

	Contact St. Croix EDC
		The West Central Freeway (WCF) is a set of inter-dependent highways connecting Western Wisconsin and the Chippewa Valley metropolitan area with the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
		It is this combination of highways that is referred to as the West Central Freeway.
		The entire West Central Freeway transportation system is being dramatically impacted by the rapidly expanding Twin Cities metropolitan area and the high rate of urban expansion into West Central Wisconsin.
	www.stcroixedc.com /transportation.htm (246 words)

	The San Antonio Area Freeway System - US 281 North
		This freeway is the backbone for the San Antonio's booming North-Central area.
		It was widely acknowledged by the early '50s that the city needed a north-central freeway and planning for the route had quietly begun by 1955.
		The freeway opened on February 7, 1978, and in 1981 was named by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) as one of the nation's three most attractive urban freeways.
	home.att.net /~texhwyman/us281n.htm (1493 words)

	California Highways (www.cahighways.org): San Francisco/Bay Area Freeway Development (Part 1—The City of San ...
		This freeway would have ran from I-280 near Daly City crosstown to the S edge of Golden Gate Park.
		Approximately present-day Route 1 from the Crosstown or Western Freeways to the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge.
		The Panhandle Freeway was to be a double deck extension of the Central Freeway, placed between Oak and Fell Streets with the attendant loss of many blocks of housing and the DMV office.
	www.cahighways.org /maps-sf-fwy.html (2215 words)

	Freeway Revolt
		San Franciscans ferociously opposed the plan and on January 23, 1959, the Freeway Revolt culminated in a resolution by the Board of Supervisors to remove a half dozen freeways from the City's master plan.
		The freeway revolt helped generate public support for BART and bolstered the objective of reducing dependency on freeways and bridges of the Bay Area.
		The Freeway Revolt lived on in the form of ballot initiatives and counter initiatives aimed at reversing the tide of freeway encroachment on San Francisco.
	www.mistersf.com /notorious/notfreeway02.htm (264 words)

	Halt the Ramp!
		The new Central Freeway is the only freeway in San Francisco to be re-built after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the original structure.
		USGS liquefaction susceptibility mapping shows the entire Central Freeway is built on land rated with the highest level of potential for liquefaction in the event of an earthquake.
		The 40 year old trees near the former freeway were torn down durning construction in 2004, and since then only a few small trees were planted in the area, not enough to help counter pollution.
	www.halttheramp.com (418 words)

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